Legal Articles and Publications

Legal Articles

• How the Dynamics Between Animal Abuse and Child Abuse Affect the Forensic Interview Process (American Prosecutors Research Institute, Vol 1., No. 4, 2004)
• The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Child Maltreatment: What Lawyers and Judges Should Know (ABA Center on Children and the Law, 1998) 
• When Parental Discipline is a Crime: Overcoming the Defense of Reasonable Force in the Investigative Stage (American Prosecutors Research Institute, Vol. 16, No. 10, 2004)
  
• Domestic Violence Basics for Child Abuse Professionals (American Prosecutors Research Institute, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2003)
• Domestic Violence and the Animal Cruelty Connection (Michigan Bar Journal, September 2004)
• The Link Among Animal Abuse, Child Abuse, and Domestic Violence (The Colorado Lawyer, September 2001
• Colorado Alliance For Cruelty Prevention: Safe Pets, Safe Families, Safe Communities (The Colorado Lawyer, April 2004)

 Other Articles and Publications

• Acknowledging the “Zoological Connection”: A Sociological Analysis of Animal Cruelty (Society & Animals Journal of Human-Animal Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2001)
• Animal Abuse and Youth Violence (OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin, September 2001)
• Animal Abuse Publications and Bibliography (www.animaltherapy.net)
• Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse: The Deadly Connection (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
• The Link Between Human Violence and Animal Cruelty (National Anti-Vivisection Society)
• DA's Link Pet Abuse, Domestic Violence (Originally published in the New York Daily News)
• Forgotten Victims of Domestic Violence (Animal Guardian, Fall 2000)
• People Who Hoard Animals (Psychiatric Times, 2004)
• Concerned Citizens Factsheet 2004 (The Human Society of the U.S., 2004)
• The International Handbook of Animal Abuse and Cruelty, Theory, Research, and Application (www.thepress.purdue.edu)